mounting a usb thumb drive

Man-wai Chang mwchang
Sun Dec 12 02:19:35 PST 2004


>> problem solved. I revealed the /var/log/messages and found that the USB 
>> DIsk Pro were detected as 2 SCSI devices. /dev/sda1 is the harddisk 
>> partition while /dev/sdb is the floppy drive. Thank all of you.
> 
> I'm confused. You are saying that it both does have partitions (is a
> hard disk) and is a floppy (does not have partitions)? 

yes.

> So, how did you wind up mounting it? And, what was the output from
> 		fdisk -l /dev/sdb

/dev/sda1 is the harddisk partition.
/dev/sdb is the floppy drive.
both devices are available from the USB Disk Pro.

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